A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.